Why do schitzophrenics complain often times of a controlling childhood, and how does this contribute negativel

Question

is this a special problem with them and why is it ?

Thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

Hi

It isn't, everyone's childhood is individual and we can not generalise easily. A person's childhood and teenage years creates the adult they are today and if it was a hard and negative childhood then this can have negative affects. When someone is diagnosed with a mental health problem it is very common for people to look back at their lives and try and find where 'it all went wrong' but this is hard as are childhood is made up of lots of different parts that make them them

Hope this helps :-) xxxxxx

Answer 2

Um, firstly: that's very generalising.

And in answer to your question, a controlling childhood can have various negative effects, it could cause a child's emotions to be locked in, so at some point its got to come out. often, it comes out in a negative way, sometimes with a bad effect on mental health and/or stability

Answer 3

Most children were controlled in their childhood. Some have been abused and terrorised beyond belief, but not all of them are schizophrenic. Schizophrenics have a tendency to focus all of their energy on anything in the past that they can blame it on. My brother is a Paranoid Schizophrenic, even though he had a better, more fair upbringing, he turned out to be the nut-nut, and us other three didn't! He also blames his childhood!!!

Answer 4

it doesnt. childhood affects people in different ways. some people might be raised in a severely abusive home and turn out normal, and other may become schizo's or serial killers.  

Answer 5

I think it does affet them a lot, for instance a protective mother hiding everything a schizo does wrong from an aggressive father, this repeated situation leads the schizo to conceal things, to deceive and act different to different people, to get distant from one relative and blame it on the other, well, it is no excuse for them but it might mean a change though small

Answer 6

It is contrary to the human condition to not complain of controlling people at any phase of life.   Is it contributory to schizophrenia?  I am not aware that it is.   The problem with controlling people is that they are by their nature unlikeable people with whom an individual cannot live a healthy emotional life.   Kind of like Democrats and their desire to make the world like "we" want it to be.   The reaction to control is not confined to one portion of the maturation process.   "Just leave me alone."  That is not a psychiatric indication.  It is a plea for individual control by any person who is not an emotional parasite.